Tipsarevics respond to match-fixing allegations from Spain Janko’s shoulder injury cause of withdrawal Author: Z. Kecman | 24.07.2009 - 10:00 All tennis and especially Janko Tipsarevic fans from Serbia have received a piece of unsettling news from Spain. Local daily newspaper Sport, reporting on the tennis match between Oscar Hernandez and Tipsarevic played at the ATP tournament in Stuttgart on 15 July, questions the integrity of the encounter. The allegations have shocked everyone, including Tipsarevic himself, while the Serbian tennis star is yet to make any public address regarding the issue. Hernandez won the match 6-4 6-4, which was the cause of suspicion among the Spanish media, as Tipsarevic had been a clear favourite to win the match, although assuming a lower ATP rankings spot at the time. At some point before the match, bookies began to receive large sums from people betting that the Spaniard would win in straight sets, which was the reason for the Spanish Tennis Integrity Unit and Gaming Commission to launch an investigation into the matter, as reported by Sport on Wednesday. Janko’s father, Pavle Tipsarevic, says his son is shocked and appalled by the news from Spain and that he can’t believe what he is cked and appalled by the news from Spain and that he can’t believe what he is being accused of all the while being plagued by a shoulder injury. - “I was with Janko until a few minutes ago – we talked and he can’t believe what’s happening. Apart from the fact he is struggling with an injury this season and that he is out of form, now all this has happened, which is ridiculous. This is all farcical – anyone who knows Janko knows he is a great sportsman and that he would never even think of fixing a tennis match,” Pavle Tipsarevic says for Blic. The match-fixing claims from the Spanish press reached the Tipsarevic family in the Canadian embassy in Belgrade. - “We went to the embassy so that Janko could get the Canadian visa in order to appear at the Montreal tournament. He’s been plagued by the right shoulder injury since Wimbledon, but knows how important every single ATP point is for him and that is why he tried his best to play, albeit through pain while serving. It is, in fact, a tricky interior rupture of the shoulder muscle and that’s what’s making him very nervous,” says Janko’s father Pavle. Tipsarevic travelled to Germany after Wimbledon, where he tried to nurse the injury in one of the most renown spas. - “His coach Jose Perlas is on vacation. Janko went to Germany to try and heal the injury. It’s the summer holidays season and our domestic doctors are on vacation, so it was best to do the MRI there. Then he trained for a week and, to everyone’s surprise, he felt better. He had previously applied for the tournaments in Stuttgart, Hamburg and Umag. An hour and a half before his match against Hernandez in Stuttgart, he took to the court to test the shoulder and it felt good. He played the match decently, but the Spaniard was better on the day and beat him. Then Janko went to Hamburg, where he lost a three-setter from Simon Greul. He started to feel the pain from his shoulder again and that’s why he’s cancelled his appearance at Umag, because he believes it would be better to rest the shoulder in order to be able to play far tougher hard-surface events, such as Montreal,” Pavle Tipsarevic explains. There have been numerous media stories of match-fixing in tennis in the recent years. Russia’s Nikolay Davydenko was the target of allegations once, but after a year of media presence not a single irrefutable piece of evidence was produced that would establish the Russian’s guilt. - “I don’t know who benefits from offering stories like this. My assumption is that some people might have found out about Janko’s injury and therefore decided to bet against him. And then bookmakers lost money. I see no other explanation to this – no-one is that stupid to fix and sell matches. Janko has never been a part of that world – he is a true sportsman. These allegations are stupid and illogical, coming in the season when Janko is trying to become a regular top-50 player. This is the third consecutive summer that he’s struggling with injuries, and now this. We have nothing to be afraid of, because our conscience is clear, and the Spanish press can write whatever they like,” says Pavle Tipsarevic. http://www.blic.rs/sports.php?id=4873 好痛的fu 大意翻一下斯圖加特的賽事Tipsy對上奧斯卡大叔,賽前普遍看好Tipsy會獲勝, 然後賽前有大量下注奧斯卡大叔會贏,所以就有打假球的懷疑. Tipsy的父親就出來澄清,溫布頓後就跑去德國檢查,因為塞國的醫生都休假去了. 在漢堡比賽時又感到疼痛,所以Umag退賽,好好準備蒙特婁的硬地賽事. --

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